Monday, June 29, 2009

glimpses

"It has always seemed to me, ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, I was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond - only a glimpse - but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile."

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My name is Colleen.I love taking my time and finding beauty and humour in things before they happen - as in seeds and salamanders.

"The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back."

C.S. Lewis - Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

"Look, it's not in my nature to be mysterious. But I can't talk about it and I can't talk about why."